Indira Hinduja

Indira Hinduja
Residence Mumbai, India
Citizenship India
Nationality Indian
Fields Infertility
Institutions KEM Hospital, Mumbai
Alma mater Bombay University
Notable awards Padma Shri (2011)

Dr. Indira Hinduja M.D., Ph.D. is an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and infertility specialist based in Mumbai.[1] She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) technique resulting in the birth of India's first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988. Previously she delivered India's s first test tube baby at KEM Hospital on August 6, 1986.[2] She is also credited for developing an oocyte donation technique for menopausal and premature ovarian failure patients, giving the country's first baby out of this technique on 24 January 1991.[3]

Academic career

She has obtained PhD degree for her thesis entitled 'Human In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer' from the Bombay University. She is a full-time practicing Obstetrician and Gynaecologist of the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (KEM Hospital), Bombay.[3]

She is currently also honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Mumbai.[1]

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